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Dynamics of Atomic Clusters Under Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses

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Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII

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This chapter presents a review of theoretical modelling of intense ultrashort laser interaction with atomic clusters. We start with a brief description of interaction of laser with gas atoms and solid targets. This is followed by a general introduction of the non-linear, non-perturbative interaction of strong laser fields with atomic clusters. Various theoretical models are presented to explain the rich features observed in laser irradiated clusters. A molecular dynamic model developed by us to study laser-cluster interaction is briefly described.Various problems of contemporary interest like anisotropic emission of ions from argon and xenon clusters, effect of carrier-envelope phase on ionization dynamic of xenon clusters, neutron emission from deuterium clusters etc. are investigated and main results of these studies are presented.

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Notes

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    \(mathcal{E}_a\) is the strength of the Coulomb field experienced by an electron in the first Bohr orbit of the hydrogen atom which comes out to be equal to \(5.1\times 10^9\) V/cm\(^{-1}\). When expressed in terms of intensity, it is equal to \(3.5\times 10^{16}\) Wcm\(^{-2}\).

  2. 2.

    The total charge (Q) build up on the cluster is sum of total ionic charge (\(Q_{ion}\)) and the charge of inner electrons.

  3. 3.

    Non-ideal rates are electron impact ionization rates that incorporate the shift of ionization potential in the dense plasma system.

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    Adiabatic approximation is valid when tunnelling time is much smaller than laser time cycle so that electron sees a constant electric field at the time of tunnelling.

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Acknowledgments

We acknowledge many useful discussions and suggestions from Dr. Amol R Holkundkar. We are thankful to Dr. G.M. Petrov for useful inputs at the time of code development. We also acknowledge Prof. Deepak Mathur for suggesting the problem of anisotropic ion emission from clusters.

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  3. Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shaghai, China

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Mishra, G., Gupta, N.K. (2015). Dynamics of Atomic Clusters Under Intense Femtosecond Laser Pulses. In: Yamanouchi, K., Roso, L., Li, R., Mathur, D., Normand, D. (eds) Progress in Ultrafast Intense Laser Science XII. Springer Series in Chemical Physics(), vol 112. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23657-5_4

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